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As I walked up and down the antechamber, very softly, on tip-toe, it appeared to me that I was, as it were, two persons in one. On the one side there was the conviction and the determination that, come what would, I must get a priest to the King if he took a turn at all for the worse since, for the present, I believed Mr. Chiffinch's word that His Majesty was not actually dying.
It was in Mr. Chiffinch's closet that I was made known to him. I had spoken too with my Lord Halifax another brilliant fellow, very satirical and witty, for which the King loved him, though all the world guessed, and the King, I think knew, that his opposition to our cause was so hot as even to keep him in correspondence with the Duke of Monmouth, safe away in Holland.
Chiffinch's familiarities. "Well, then, why should I not go?" I asked. "Why: she is here! Did you not know?" "Here! in London." "Aye: in Whitehall. I saw her only yesterday." "In Whitehall! What do you mean, Mr. Chiffinch?" I suppose my face went white. I knew that my heart beat like a hammer. "Why, what I say!" said he. "Why do you look like that, Mr. Mallock?" "Tell me!" I cried.
It was the morning before last, when meeting with the King at Chiffinch's unexpectedly in fact I had looked in to fool an hour away, and to learn how your scheme advanced I saw a singular scene. Egad, I can hardly help laughing to think how the King and I were both baffled; for I will not deny, that I had tried to trifle for a moment with the fair Indamora.
Ah! changeful head, and fickle heart! No event is more ordinary in narratives of this nature, than the abduction of the female on whose fate the interest is supposed to turn; but that of Alice Bridgenorth was thus far particular, that she was spirited away by the Duke of Buckingham, more in contradiction than in the rivalry of passion; and that, as he made his first addresses to her at Chiffinch's, rather in the spirit of rivalry to this Sovereign, than from any strong impression which her beauty had made on his affections, so he had formed the sudden plan of spiriting her away by means of his dependents, rather to perplex Christian, the King, Chiffinch, and all concerned, than because he had any particular desire for her society at his own mansion.
Chiffinch to bid me come to Whitehall as soon as I returned; but the messenger had not seemed greatly perturbed, James told me; so I changed my clothes and had my supper and set out. It would be about half-past seven o'clock when I came to Mr. Chiffinch's; and when I tapped I had no answer. I tapped again; and then a servant of Mr. When I told him he seemed surprised, and he said that Mr.
Yet, though I had begun to consider myself more than in the first flush, I still felt my anger rise in me like a tide whenever I regarded the bare facts. But mere anger would never do; and I set myself to drive it down. Besides, it would be there, I knew, and ready, if I should need it on the next day. When I arrived at Mr. Chiffinch's the next morning, I found him in a very grave mood.
This committee met sometimes at Chiffinch's lodgings, and sometimes at the official apartments of Sunderland, who, though still nominally a Protestant, was admitted to all its deliberations, and soon obtained a decided ascendency over the other members. Every Friday the Jesuitical cabal dined with the Secretary.
She inhabited a set of apartments called Chiffinch's the scene of many an intrigue, both of love and politics; and where Charles often held his private parties for the evening, when, as frequently happened, the ill-humour of the Duchess of Portsmouth, his reigning Sultana, prevented his supping with her.
Chiffinch's name was brought to me; and I went to see him in the little parlour and bring him through to what would be my private closet so great was I become! He looked older; and I told him so. "Well; so I am," said he. "And so are we all. You will be astonished when you see His Majesty." "Is he so much older?" I asked. "He has aged five years in one," said he.
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